Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management on Friday loaded up another 18,000 shares — worth about $823,320 — in the U.S. listed Chinese electric vehicle maker $XPeng(XPEV.US)$
Xpeng’s stock closed 4.5% higher at $44.47 a share on Wednesday. The stock is up about 3.7% fp or the year.
The Guangzhou, China-based company bolted ahead of local rivals $NIO Inc(NIO.US)$ and $Li Auto(LI.US)$ last month with deliveries.
Each of the three players delivered more than 10,000 electric vehicles — with Xpeng leading the pack at 15,613 units, Li Auto grabbing the second spot at 13,485 units and Nio dispatching 10,878 units to dealers during the month.
Ark Invest first bought shares in Xpeng on Dec. 3 and has since piled up shares in the electric vehicle company’s stock on six days, all via the $ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF(ARKQ.US)$ . ARKQ held 637,042 shares — worth $27.88 million in Xpeng, prior to Thursday’s trade.
Besides Xpeng, the Elon Musk-led Tesla is the only all-electric vehicle maker in which Ark Invest has bought large amounts. The firm counts Tesla as its largest holding and owns shares worth billions in the company via its exchange-traded funds.
The investment firm has been booking profit in Tesla since early September when shares of the company began an upward march.
Ark also sold 2,273 shares — estimated to be worth $6.68 million — in $Alphabet-C(GOOG.US)$ . The stock closed 1.89% higher at $2,938.9 a share on Wednesday.

Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management on Monday further raised its exposure in the U.S listed Chinese electric vehicle maker $XPeng(XPEV.US)$ , continuing its buying spree in the company that aims to rival $Tesla(TSLA.US)$ .
Ark Invest bought 31,178 shares — estimated to be worth $1.2 million — in the Guangzhou, China-based Xpeng.
Xpeng’s shares closed 5.67% lower at $39.44 a share on Monday and are down 17% over the past month.
Xpeng and other Chinese peer stocks such as $NIO Inc(NIO.US)$ have been under pressure lately amid $DiDi Global (Delisted)(DIDI.US)$ plans to delist from the New York Stock Exchange.
Xpeng’s homegrown Shanghai, China-based rival Nio on Saturday revealed a new sedan that would compete with Tesla’s Model 3.
Xpeng delivered more electric vehicles than Nio and Li Auto in November. The company has said it aims to sell half of its electric vehicles outside of China.
The maker of electric sedans and SUVs already sells electric vehicles in Norway and plans to ramp up investments overseas next year, including in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
ARKQ held 608,120 shares — worth $25.4 million in Xpeng, prior to Monday’s trade.
Tesla is the only other all-electric company in which Ark Invest has exposure. The investment firm counts Tesla as its largest holding and owns shares worth billions in the company via its exchange-traded funds.

Triple witching is why stocks are been manipulated down to meet option positions. All the volatility you've seen in the market have been driving to today's event.
$Tesla(TSLA.US)$ is major player in the futures index, along with $Apple(AAPL.US)$ . Both stocks would be much higher when covid and inflation isn't new. These are both baked in for over a year now.
Tesla would be over $1,000 and Apple would be at $200 already if news media was unplugged for just one week. Today they are on sale thanks to the triple witching volatility we've been seening in action for weeks, which will end today.
Buy all of the EV stocks you can and hold for 5+ years: $TSLA, $AAPL,  $Rivian Automotive(RIVN.US)$ , $Lucid Group(LCID.US)$ , $NIO Inc(NIO.US)$ , $XPeng(XPEV.US)$
Yes, Apple is an EV play no matter when they announce their plans. NIO has their NIO Day on 12/18, and while a stretch, an Apple partnership announcement could be a huge surprise.
Keep buying. Keep holding.

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